Nacey

Don't worry I'm working on a patch to fix the additional issues suffered by DLC users missing strings etc this was mainly a compatibility patch so you can at least play with Distant Stars for the time being, there are tons of issues to resolve... The main one of my list, that one minidump that randomly happens when starting the game that's been around for so damn long... even after I've rewritten the entire GalaxyScenarioDef file! Anyway, just a quick post to s

Hey all, my God it's been a long time since I've posted here! Let me apologise for all of the really delayed updates for you all, as you can now see there is a new variant of the Rebellion 1.5 + DLC available now. Whilst it doesn't fix the old minidump problem Distant Stars has had for some time it is fully compatible with 1.5... if you get a minidump when you boot up you'll need to re-download it. Also please note I've supplied the MD5 for you to check you

[quote who="Vespidiant" reply="7562" id="3195658"]Getting "problem loading page" error when I try to click the rebellion download link and "unknown error" messages if I try to right click. Worked a couple of days ago but had to cancel cownload ... any Advice?[/quote] Just tried it myself and its working fine from my end. I'll see about getting another mirror up asap for those that have "issues" :) Just so you're all aware I'am reading the forums often inbetween wor

Here's what you've all finally been waiting for. Whilst there are a few minor issues with this version it should be relatively stable for you. The game will sometimes crash when the game is launched with the Mod however that's something we can work out later. Once the game is launched its been perfectly stable for all of the games I've had. Anyway, enough of my rambling: <a href="http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/Distant_Stars_(R)_ALPHA_0.10_[45859

So Distant Stars for Rebellion is coming along nicely. It now at least runs without too many errors, few conflicts here and there to sort out but its definitely a step in the right direction! Now you all thought leaving Ryat in charge of the Pirates was bad with his Powerful Pirates minimod, now just imagine Powerful Pirates with this fleet, this was the first raid launched against the AI... <img src="http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/scre

Hey all, Sorry there hasn't been any news from me recently however I'm sure you'll all be glad to see that there is finally a minor update to the Diplomacy edition for Distant Stars. This incorporates the efficiency mini mod from Stant, basically all of the minor changes I'd started but not finished working on and should've released with 1.00 originally. To download the new version for Diplomacy use the following link: <a href="http://distantstars.mmob

There we go, should be fixed now. Apologies the 7z mime type was missing from my server, all sorted now :)

And so Rebellion is released, we've already started work during the beta on the Distant Stars release for Rebellion so it shouldn't be too long now before we release the first iteration of DS for Rebellion, how stable this is going to be I'm not sure just yet but it should at least allow you to complete most games (otherwise whats the point! XD). We'll also be releasing an update for Diplomacy around the same time also which should merge quite a few of the changes Stan

I'll be porting the Distant Stars MOD in preperation for the release day of Rebellion once my code comes through... darn being dropped to the bottom of the queue because my card expired!

[quote who="Kaerar" reply="6538" id="3038516"]Thought as much, can't really tell what was the cause unfortunately. Too much of the universe unknown [/quote] Dumps dont do us any good but if you could give us the save and we can try to get some hints at it from there using the developer .exe :)

So. It's finally happened. We have reached the 1.00 milestone for the Diplomacy/Trinity release. It's been one hell of a long time coming as im sure you will all agree! The final version includes a heck of a lot of fixes and optimisations to our mod including the removal of all (as far as we know) those annoying minidump errors that just ruin games too often. Without further ado: 1.00 Release for Diplomacy

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="6489" id="3034750"]The only crashes I've had with Distant Stars in it's current version are very occasionally on a map start or when I'm done playing the map and trying to get out of it. Those are again very rare. [/quote] One in roughly 33 loads in to or out of a game I believe. Those games have to call upon a very specific set of random galaxy areas and even then its a 1 in 6 that it would then cause the crash. As such it was very har

If you have one working adding more should be childs play as all you have to do is replicate it and add in the necessary additions to the files. Remember though, the militia use the Player races (TECH, PSI and PHASE) as their base. So they will need the additional starbases adding in to them for them to be able to deploy and use them correctly. Not forgetting to update the Starbase count as necessary. Also its best to remove any research requirements for the ones that actual p

[quote who="jtillung" reply="5911" id="2987535"] You have the latest diplomacy release? version 1.32 When you enable the mod, you see the proper checksum? 73603744 Have you redownloaded the mod since it's known that sometimes bad things happen to large downloads? Yes Yes Yes Could you put up an MD5 sum for the files? Would help me verify the zip is good.[/quote] The MD5 for: Distant_Stars_(D)_0

[quote who="BadTune" reply="5905" id="2987081"]Oh, now that I think about it Stant, there is one issue with the "planetary guns" of the advent. Some times the sfx of the weapon's hit (sound used for the beam platform's dmg I think) will stick and loop constantly which usually makes me reduce the sfx or mute them all together. If someone could look into that one, maybe there's a extra line or something caught in one of the files causing it to loop under certain conditions.[/quote]<

[quote who="Hegemon76" reply="5886" id="2986759"]Extracting Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B5\sound\advent 1.ogg unknown compression method That's what winzip says. Any ideas guys?[/quote] Sounds like your WinZip is out of date, you can either update that or use an alternative program such as WinRAR or 7zip both of which you can find links for at the bottom of the main thread :)

Update on 1.00: All of the minidump errors are now fixed, it turned out to be 5 separate errors all generated by different combinations of units and so on generated via the GalaxyScenarioDef file. All research costs, research times etc have now been normalised across all research trees (something that should have been done a long time ago). The majority of errors have now been fixed bar a few thanks to Stants help for fixing quite a few of those.

[quote who="chemical_art" reply="5827" id="2984306"]Hi there, I have downloaded the .99 version of your mod. But when I attempted to unzip it I get errors. Both 7zip and Winrar can not recongnize the compression type, they say, thus they cannot work with the product. Is there anything in particular with this version?[/quote] This version was compressed with LZMA2 you'll probably need to update an out of date version of 7zip or WinRAR to be able to access it.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="5804" id="2983543"]Working on a new release now.[/quote] Anddd the new 1.32 compatibility patch is here. Whilst our Mod still works with 1.32 without any updates this incorporates any changes the Devs included in to our mod and also fixes a couple minidump / GalaxyScenarioDef file errors. The full download is uploading at the moment and should be available in around an hour or so's time. <a href="http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Di

Okay so its time for another update on how 1.00 is coming along! I've just finished what I hope to be all of the work we need to do on it now apart from this single minidump which we're currently hunting down. Now its not a guaranteed minidump and it never happens during a "match" (of any kind sp/mp/ai/noai etc) it only ever happens when launching the game and may not happen for 13+ game launches and other times it may happen 5+ times in a row. Hopefully we'll be a

[quote who="Makinus_" reply="5785" id="2981776"]i'm getting some broken icons in the zoomed out galaxy in the explored systems... it only happens with DS enabled... the planet icons appear cut at the middle, showing only half the circle or two halfcircles opposite each other... when zooming in however the planet images are fine... [/quote] [quote who="Stant123" reply="5786" id="2981806"]Download the Multiple Stars Graphics mod DS version from Boshimi and run it as a minimod on top

Making a mobile "factory" is impossible, it is however possible to make an ability to spawn a ship quite easily via an Ability ala the the Vasari Phase Gates, I believe there is another way to do it but I cant recall of the top of my head, both methods from what I do remember though revolve around abilities. As Ryat mentioned its impossible to make a mobile factory due to the UI constraints which are hardcoded.

[quote who="Stant123" reply="5779" id="2979049"] Quoting GDSR, reply 5778I can confirm that this exact crash happens to me too. Download: http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/entity.manifest[/quote] Have now added a link to this above in our main post so it doesnt keep getting lost in all the posts :) Update on 1.00: We're doing some final testing at the moment, ALOT of bug fixes and minor things we've been

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="5713" id="2975929"]Oh the horror, THE HORROR!!!!!! So much space junk, oh the JUUUUNNNKKK!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehehe....silly Advent scum, your SC are useless to you now.[/quote] We've made a rather interesting tactical modification to the strikecraft and how the strikecraft deal their damage for the final release which is one of the reasons play testin

[quote who="Stant123" reply="5708" id="2975737"] Quoting Nacey, reply 5702Version 1.0 will only be released as a Full Download to avoid patching errors and minidumps etc, it may take longer to download but atleast we are then 100% certain you have the correct files and no old files are lying around. So I started making a list yesterday of all of the files that can be removed from DS because they are either no different from the originals or their changes aren't necessary s